M. FEDERICI

The Authors reported investigations and results of a twenty-year experience with femoral head/socket coupling in allumina ceramic related to 248 total hip prostheses which were implanted between 1983 and 1999, and periodically controlled. At a follow-up in December 2003, 161 implants were lost and only 28 implants survived and were checked with...

Gemini MKII (Link GmbH & Co. - Hamburg) is one of the most recent device s among mobile bearing total knee prosthesis, in which poly bearing can rotate and translate over the metal tibial component surface (asymmetrically shaped), with the restriction of its housing in a special track. In this study, we reported the results of 34 consecutive...